SPECIES 11. MUSCICJiPJi MELODM* 
WARBLING FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XLII. — Fig. 2.] 
This sweet little warbler is for the first time figured and de- 
scribed. In its general appearance it resemblance the Red-eyed 
Flycatcher; but on a close comparison differs from that bird in 
many particulars. It arrives in Pennsylvania about the middle 
of April, and inhabits the thick foliage of orchards and high 
trees; its voice is soft, tender and soothing, and its notes flow 
in an easy continued strain that is extremely pleasing. It is 
often heard among the weeping willows and Lombardy poplars 
of the city ; is rarely observed in the woods; but seem particular- 
ly attached to the society of man. It gleans among the leaves, 
occasionally darting after winged insects, and searching for cater- 
pillars; and seems by its manners to partake considerably of 
the nature of the genus Sylvia. It is late in departing, and I 
have frequently heard its notes among the fading leaves of the 
poplar in October. 
This little bird may be distinguished from all the rest of our 
songsters by the soft tender easy flow of its notes, while hid 
among the foliage. In these there is nothing harsh, sudden or 
emphatical; they glide along in a kind of meandering strain that 
is peculiarly its own. In May and June it may be generally 
heard in the orchards, the borders of the city, and around the 
farm house. 
This species is five inches and a half long, and eight inches 
and a half in extent; bill dull lead colour above, and notched 
near the point, lower a pale flesh colour; eye dark hazel; line 
over the eye and whole lower parts white, the latter tinged with 
Muscicapa gilva, Vieillot, Oi$. de L‘dm. Sept. pi. S4. 
